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| Brexit: 'Election in October' if MPs block no deal | |
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| Boris Johnson has insisted he does not want a general election, as he urged MPs not to vote for "another pointless delay" to Brexit. | Boris Johnson has insisted he does not want a general election, as he urged MPs not to vote for "another pointless delay" to Brexit. |
| But the BBC understands the PM would seek to call a vote, expected to be on 14 October, if MPs block no deal. | But the BBC understands the PM would seek to call a vote, expected to be on 14 October, if MPs block no deal. |
| Tory ex-ministers are joining forces with Labour to stop the UK leaving the EU on 31 October without an agreement. | |
| Speaking outside No 10, Mr Johnson said such a move would make further talks with the EU on a new deal "impossible". | Speaking outside No 10, Mr Johnson said such a move would make further talks with the EU on a new deal "impossible". |
| With MPs' backing, though, he said he would be able to achieve changes to the UK's current deal - negotiated by Theresa May and rejected three times in the Commons - at an EU summit on 17 October. | |
| The chances of reaching a new agreement had been "rising" because the UK was preparing to leave the EU "come what may" by the latest deadline, he added. | |
| The prime minister has said the UK must leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal, prompting a number of MPs to unite across party lines to try to prevent the UK leaving without an agreement. | |
| They are expected to put forward legislation on Tuesday under Standing Order 24 - a Commons rule which allows urgent debates to be called. | |
| The bill, which has now been published by Labour MP Hilary Benn, would force the PM to request a Brexit delay to 31 January 2020 unless MPs had approved a new deal, or voted in favour of a no deal departure, by 19 October. | |
| Tory rebels - who include former ministers and prominent backbenchers - have been warned that those who support the legislation face being expelled from the party and deselected. | |
| But leading figures, including ex-Justice Secretary David Gauke, have insisted that despite the threat, they will press ahead and - in their words - put the "national interest" ahead of their own. | |
| Did Boris Johnson just announce an election without actually announcing an election? | |
| He's always said that he really doesn't want to go to the country again. | |
| Downing Street is still absolutely adamant that is still the case, and again with the formality of the No 10 podium, he insisted it was not what he wanted to do. | |
| But he also made plain that there were no circumstances in which he would ask Brussels to delay our departure from the EU. | |
| And that means only one thing. Calling an election if, in his view, he needs to. When would he need to do that? Soon. | |
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